The Book

Not another heavy self-help tome–you’ve already worked out the basics of your relationship. You know who you are and who your loved one is. All you need is a quick reference guide, a reminder and refresher of things to do (and not to do!) that can instantly bring both of you back to balance and harmony.

Enjoy the tools gathered here by two lesbians, relationship experts and award-winning writers. Kim and Renate got married after a cross-culture relationship of almost 28 happy years together. They know a few things about keeping love and sex, romance and intimacy alive for good. Here they share relationship stories and reflections with you, blending wisdom of the heart with healthy doses of humor.

The Authors

Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal are prize-winning writers as well as relationship experts. After a cross-cultural relationship of almost three decades, they are now a married couple. Lesbian Marriage: A Love & Sex Forever Kitis their third co-authored book. (They follow their own advice most of the time!)

Kim Chernin, Ph.D., has won acclaim for her numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including The Obsession, In My Mother’s House (Nominated for Chronicle Critics Award, and Chosen as Alice Walker’s Favorite Book of the Year, in 1983 New York Times), The Flame Bearers (1986 New York Times Notable Book and recipient of an NEA Grant for Fiction) and the National Best Seller The Hungry Self. More about Kim.

Renate Stendhal, Ph.D., is German-born and Paris-educated. She works as a writing coach and relationship expert in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the award-winning author of several non-fiction and fiction books, a cultural critic and Huffington Post blogger. More about Renate.